Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: a Scoping Review of the Literature. [PDF]
J Gen Intern Med, 2022 Abstract Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives often reflect approaches based on anecdotal evidence, but it is unclear how initiatives can best incorporate scientific literature and methods into the QI process.
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Dynamic waitlisted design for evaluating a randomized trial of evidence-based quality improvement of comprehensive women’s health care implementation in low-performing VA facilities [PDF]
Implementation Science Communications, 2020 Background Women’s Health Services (WHS) in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has long partnered with VA researchers to evaluate how VA care is organized for women veterans.
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Assessing fidelity to evidence-based quality improvement as an implementation strategy for patient-centered medical home transformation in the Veterans Health Administration [PDF]
Implementation Science, 2020 Background Effective implementation strategies might facilitate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) uptake and spread by targeting barriers to change. Evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) is a multi-faceted implementation strategy that is based on ...
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Long-term impact of evidence-based quality improvement for facilitating medical home implementation on primary care health professional morale [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2018 Background Poor morale among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff can undermine the success of patient-centered care models such as the patient-centered medical home that rely on highly coordinated inter-professional care teams.
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Application of a nonrandomized stepped wedge design to evaluate an evidence-based quality improvement intervention: a proof of concept using simulated data on patient-centered medical homes [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016 Background Stepped wedge designs have gained recognition as a method for rigorously assessing implementation of evidence-based quality improvement interventions (QIIs) across multiple healthcare sites.
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Sustainment, Sustainability, and Spread Study (SSaSSy): protocol for a study of factors that contribute to the sustainment, sustainability, and spread of practice changes introduced through an evidence-based quality-improvement intervention in Canadian nursing homes [PDF]
Implementation Science, 2019 Background Implementation scientists and practitioners, alike, recognize the importance of sustaining practice change, however post-implementation studies of interventions are rare. This is a protocol for the Sustainment, Sustainability and Spread Study (
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Dental teams and their workplaces are among the most exposed to airborne and bloodborne infectious agents, and therefore at the forefront of pandemic-related changes to how dental care is organized and provided to patients.
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objective Situation Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) is a quality improvement programme aiming to improve situation awareness in paediatric clinical teams.
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A Reflection on Research, Theory, Evidence-based Practice, and Quality Improvement [PDF]
Journal of Evidence-Based Care, 2016 Recently, use of research, theory, evidence-based practice (EBP), and quality improvement (QI) has increased dramatically in the professional manuscripts and discourses of the health related literature.
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Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Prehospital Evidence-Based Guidelines
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2022 Evidence-based guidelines that provide recommendations for clinical care or operations are increasingly being published to inform the EMS community. The quality of evidence evaluation and methodological rigor undertaken to develop and publish these recommendations vary.
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